Ruhle Pollard drove his estranged wife's body...

ARREST ME.

September 4, 1988

JEFFERSONVILLE, IND. — ARREST ME. Ruhle Pollard drove his estranged wife's body to police headquarters early Friday and demanded that he be arrested. Pollard, 36, was distraught when he arrived at the City-County Building about 4 a.m. and told a sheriff's dispatcher that he wanted to be arrested on an outstanding warrant, said Clark County Sheriff Mike Becher. Dispatcher Harold Goodlet could find no warrant for Pollard and refused to arrest him. After saying he had strangled his wife and her body was on the back seat of his car, Pollard told Goodlet to shoot him. The body of Jo Ann Pollard, 36, was found in the car. Pollard was arrested immediately. He was being held on a preliminary charge of murder, pending a court appearance Tuesday. Pollard, who is unemployed, had been living at a shelter for the homeless. Lois Nelson, coordinator at the Haven House shelter, said, ''This is quite a shock for me.''